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Bringing Up Father (Comic Strip)
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Bringing Up Father is a retired Newspaper Comic strip which ran from 1913 to 2000. Originally written and drawn by George McManus, the strip featured the day-to-day life of "Jiggs", an Irish-American man with a habit for drinking, brawling and being generally uncouth, and his long-suffering, abusive wife, Maggie, who constantly tries to get the family into "society", now Jiggs has won a million dollars in a sweepstakes.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The over-reaching gag is that Jiggs prefers the simple life, eating corned beef and hash, drinking and partying with his buddies, and lazing about, while social-climbing Maggie beats him over the head with various utensils while attempting to force Jiggs into more civilized behavior: dressing up, meeting other rich folk, travelling the world and more. Filling out the recurring cast is their daughter Catie, a pretty, but horrifically spoiled, young woman who shares her mother's social-climbing tendencies, and receives dozens of marriage proposals from wealthy dukes, generals and businessmen.More or less a comic strip version of a Dom Com, with a healthy dose of ethnic-based humor (more European than anything), Domestic Abuse and the everlasting image of the Henpecked Husband. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: Played heavily for laughs as a major running gag. Maggie frequently beat Jiggs with frying pans, rolling pins and whatever else was available when he displeased her. Parodied by MAD with "Bringing Back Father", where the domestic abuse was played seriously. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Jiggs' modus operandi, especially when having to deal with moochers and Maggie's social ambitions. | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male | |
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Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: The strip just wouldn't work without this. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Maggie and Jiggs had a son in the first couple strips. He quickly vanished, not really working within the confines of the strip (which worked best with two women admonishing Jiggs). | |
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Dreadful Musician | |
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Dreadful Musician: Maggie has a habit of banging away at the piano while caterwauling loudly, something which naturally annoys Jiggs to no end. Whenever he comes across any of her previous music teachers, his immediate reaction is to punch their lights out. | |
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Art Evolution: Maggie was initially very fat, and Jiggs was taller, burlier and hairier. Maggie eventually grew into a tall "old hen" build, while Jiggs grew more squat to make Maggie's beatings seem more believable. Also, Jiggs' best pal Dinty Moore was drawn differently in nearly every instance for no apparent reason. | |
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